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cm0002@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison in gold bar bribery case

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Former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison in gold bar bribery case

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cm0002@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months ago
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Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of 15 years, an amount of time his lawyers call "a life and death sentence" for the 71-year-old New Jersey Democrat.
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    • Orbituary@lemmy.world
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      Please. The only difference between this and Congress is that they insider trade, which is legal for them and the rest of the branch.

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    If only he had waited. Bribery is legal now, right?

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      Only when Papa gets his cut.

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      Magic Supreme Court Ball: Signs point to YES

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    Note all the Democrats in this thread screaming how it’s unfair political persecution and a witch hunt…

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      But I don’t see anyone complaining about… Ah, point taken.

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      Yeah but this fucker had been known to be corrupt for years and no one did shit about it.

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        Idk seems to be like the fbi during the Biden administration did something…

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          Menendez has been openly and obviously corrupt for almost my entire life this goes back way before Biden. Also, the FBI is supposed to be independent so while I guess as usual they did the bare minimum of not interfering I think they should have forced him out of office long before this.

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    Great! Now do the rest!

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      We’ve had Menendez, now can we have Gaetz?

      I guess we did get a Santos, remember this fucker https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/08/19/george-santos-guilty/74857375007/

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    deleted by creator

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      Got 2 birds stoned at once

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      Frig off Ricky!

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    Sweet. Now Trump will pardon him if he thinks he still has some of the gold.

    I am thinking that’s why he freed Dread Pirate Roberts. There are billions in unclaimed BTC wallets going back to his arrest time.

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      He won’t pardon a Democrat

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        1. He will if he can get a gold bar out of it.

        2. If Menendez does him a favor or kisses his ass on TV.

        3. Menendezs son, who is in Congress does him a favor.

        Look what happened to Snoop Dogg after Trump pardoned his friend.

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        He pardoned Rod Blagojevich

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        Maybe Eric Adams, but the statement arguably still applies.

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      He’s a democrat. That won’t happen.

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    Can’t believe this fuck tried to blame it all on his wife. If there is one way to guarantee yourself zero leniency…

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      I think he was blaming his wife to get off on the charges, then she would have done the same thing and blamed him… they were hoping to both get off using this tactic because you can’t be compelled to testify against your spouse. It obviously didn’t work.

      Dude had wads of cash and gold bars all throughout his house lol.

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    From gold bars to iron bars…

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    He should have ran for president.

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    Only stupid criminals become Dem politicians instead of Republican.

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